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Three baby formulas were recalled by Abbott Nutrition.

Abbott Nutrition announced a recall of three of its infant formulas after four babies who consumed the company’s products reported to have been hospitalized for bacterial infections. The recall is for specific lots of the company’s Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare formulas that its Sturgis, Mich., facility produced.

This comes as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised consumers in a release on Thursday not to use certain powdered infant formula products produced at the facility. The agency said it was investigating complaints that the four infants in three states who were said to have consumed powdered infant formula by Abbott Nutrition made at the facility were reported to have Cronobacter sakazakii and Salmonella Newport infections.

FDA said that all four cases related to these complaints were hospitalized, and Cronobacter may have contributed to a death in one case. The FDA also said it had initiated an onsite inspection at the facility.  As this is a product used as the sole source of nutrition for many of our nation’s newborns and infants, the FDA is deeply concerned about these reports of bacterial infections.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local partners are also contributing to the investigation, according to the FDA. In a statement, American multinational medical devices and health care companies apologized for the inconvenience of the recall to consumers.

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